End-gate and scoop-board for wagons.



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END GATE AND SCOOP BOARD FOR WA GONS. APPLICATION FILED FEBHI. 1906.

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PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

R, P. DUNHAM. END GATE AND SCOOP BOARD FOR WAGONS.

APPLICATION FILED P133. 7. 1906.

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RILEY P. DUNHAM, OF DELHI, MICHIGAN.

END-GATE AND SCOOP-BOARD FOR WAGONS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application find February 7, 1906. Serial No. 299,981.

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Be it known that I, RILEY P. DUNI-IAM, a citizen of the Unit ed States, residing at Delhi,

in the county of Ingham and State of Michi-.

gan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End Gates and Scoop- Boards for Wagons, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved end-gate and scoop-board for wagons the construction of which will permit the end-gate to be swung either to the right or left and will permit the scoopboard to be held at various angles of elevation with respect to the wagon-body. The scoop-board is,moreover, so arranged or hinged to the bottom of the wagon-body that it will not materially hinder the action of shovels scraping across the contiguous edges of the scoopboard and bottom of the wagonbody.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a wagonbody embodying the improvements of my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view substantially similar to Fig. 1, but with the scoop-board in closed position. Fig. 4 is a perspective view illustrating a slight modification. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the clamping devices used in that form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view illustrating another modification.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a wagon-body,which in the present instance is provided with an upper detachable section 1 consisting of side-boards held on the upper edges of themain sides of the body by vertical straps or cleats 2. In effect the upper section 1 forms part of the wagonbody proper.

To the rear of the wagon-body 1 there are secured hinged members 3, which, as shown, are riveted or otherwise secured to the outer sides of the section 1 and are each provided with two spaced-apart eyes 4, arranged in vertical alinement. The end-gate 5 is provided at each end with a complementary member 5, provided with a pintle-receiving eye 7. The eyes 7 are designed to be received snugly between the'spaced-apart eyes 5, and pintles 8 are intended to be inserted through the alined eyes 5 and 7, clearly as illustrated in the drawings, both of said pintles being detachable. By this arrangement either one of the pintles may be withdrawn, so as to swing the end-gate 5 either to the right or left. If desired, the end-gate may be detached, as is evident, and in the present construction the end-gate and side-boards may be detached in their coupled-together condition.

The scoop-board 9 is hinged at one edge to the end edge of the wagon-bottom, preferably by means of hinges 10, the members of which extend from side to side of the wagon-bottom and are preferablymetallic, so as to protect the edges of the scoop-board and wagon-bottom from the action of the shovels when scraping material out of the wagon-body. This construction of hinge also permits the shovels to be scraped across the edges of the wagon-bottom and scrapingboard without material hindrance. The scoop-board 9 is provided at each edge with a strengthenin -bar 11, and side plates 12 are secured to t e scoop-board, preferably by being provided with inwardly-turned edges 13, secured to the outer sides of the strengthening-bars, as shown. The side plates 13 of the scoop-board maybe of any material, preferably suitably strong metal. The side plates 13 are each provided with a curved slot 14, accommodating the pin 15, projecting outwardly from the side of the wagon-body 1. The said pins 15 are designed to abut against the ends of the slots 14 when the scoopboard is in the extreme lowered position, lying horizontally with the bottom of the wagon-body. The pins 15 are threaded, as shown. Clamping devices 16 are provided for each pin. Each clamping device 16 comprises an apertured head 17, provided with side flanges 18 and designed to receive a nut 19, which fits the side flanges, and therefore is mounted to turn therewith. These clamping devices have their heads inserted over the threaded pins 15, which latter extend through the apertures in the heads and also through the nuts, so that by turning the handles 20 of the clamping devices the nuts may be screwed on the thread- ITO ed pins, and consequently bind the heads of the clamping devices against the outer faces of the side plates 13. By this means the scoop-board may be maintained at different angular positions, as is evident. The arrangement of the clamping devices and ends From the foregoing description, in connec tion with the accompanying drawings, it

will be seen that the improved scoop-board of my invention may be readily held at different elevations by merely tightening the clamping devices against the si..e plates and that the end-gate may be entirely detached, if desired, or opened at either side.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 4 it will be seen that the pintles 8 of the end-gate serve also as a clamping and retaining means for holding the scoop-board at different elevations, because in this modification of my invention the grooved edges of the side plates 13 of the scoop-board are provided with teeth or notches 22, into which the pintles 8 extend. By this means the pintles will hold the scoop-board at different elevations without the grooved slots and clamping de vices before cescribed.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 6 it will be seen that the side 13 of the scoopboard is provided at its edge with a lateral or offset extension 13 and that a clampingbar 16 is designed to bind against the outer face of the side 13 so that the requisite pressure may be exerted thereon by screwing up the bolt 16 to hold the scoop-board at different angular positions. The lateral or offset extension 13 of the side of the scoopboard acts as a stop to limit the outward and downward movement of the scoop to the horizontal position.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is? 1. A wagon body provided at its rear ed es with hinge members, an end-gate provided at its ends with complementary hinge members, and detachable pintles, designed to connect the hinge members of the endgate to the hinge members of the wagonbody, whereby either end of the end-gate may be freedand the end-gate swung to one side or the other.

2. A wagon-body provided with a hinged scoop board having slotted side plates, threaded pins projecting outwardly from the sides of the wagon-body and mounted in the slots of the side plates, aclamping device comprising apertured heads adapted to fit over said pins and provided with side flanges and handles, and nuts detachably received within said flanges and threaded on said pins, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RILEY P. DUNHAM.

I/Vitnesses CHAS. L. PRATT, GEORGE W. JnwnTT. 

